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Thursday, June 16, 2016

THE ARTFUL DINER / TATE MODERN’S NEW WING ADDS TWO NEW FOOD/DRINK OPTIONS

The new Switch House wing is just behind the existing Tate Modern’s Boiler House (main) building right above the “Opens June 17” sign.

After a long day of taking in art museum’s
like London’s new expanded and architecturally stunning Switch House addition
at the Tate Modern (opens tomorrow, June 17) inaugural visitors will have a new
restaurant and bar to taste.

Inside the new wing will be the Switch
House Bar on the first floor and Switch House Restaurant on floor nine.

Preview crowd at Tate Modern's new Switch House building wing

Evening Standard
newspaper reporters note “...The venues will focus on sourcing ingredients from
across the UK, and will also serve Tate’s own-blended wines, the gallery’s own
gin made by Sacred distillery in Highgate, and a beer brewed especially for
Tate by Bermondsey’s Four Pure.

“Dishes in the restaurant will include duck
pastrami with dates, blood orange salad and balsamic jelly; trout with leek
vinaigrette, air-dried ham and a horseradish velouté; and cured haddock with
golden beetroot, samphire and cockle consomme.

Dessert from the new Switch House restaurant at Tate Modern’s new 9th floor wing is Victoria sponge with coconut cream, mango compote, mandarin gel, and orange and almond tuile.

“The bar will serve pastries for breakfast
from 7.30 am, while both venues will offer coffee that’s been roasted across
the river at Tate Britain in a WWII Nissen hut.

If the new wing’s food venues are packed
there’s always the menus found in Tate Modern’s existing Boiler House building,
which include a ground floor café, a members’ bar on the 5th floor and the
popular “Kitchen” restaurant on the 6th floor.

The new building will also boast a 10th
floor viewing gallery, treating visitors to impressive cross the Thames vistas.

Switch House addition (above) to Tate Modern by architects James Herzog & Pierre DeMeuron (below)